Security Engineer, Detection & Response

About the Role

At Anthropic, we are seeking an exceptional Detection and Response engineer to be on the frontlines building solutions to monitor for threats, rapidly investigate incidents, and coordinate response efforts with other teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead cybersecurity Incident Response efforts covering diverse domains from external attacks to insider threats involving all layers of Anthropic’s technology stack
• Develop and deploy novel tooling that may leverage Large Language Models to enhance detection, investigation, and response capabilities
• Create and optimize detections, playbooks, and workflows to quickly identify and respond to potential incidents
• Review Incident Response metrics and procedures and drive continuous improvement
• Work cross functionally with other security and engineering teams
• Note: This position will require participation in an on-call rotation

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software engineering experience (with security experience a plus) and/or 5+ years of detection engineering, incident response, or threat hunting experience
• A solid understanding of cloud environments and operations
• Experience working with engineering teams in a SaaS environment
• Exceptional communication and collaboration skills
• An ability to lead projects with little guidance
• The ability to pick up new languages and technologies quickly
• Experience handling security incidents and investigating anomalies as part of a team
• Knowledge of EDR, SIEM, SOAR, or related security tools

Bonus Qualifications

• Experience performing security operations or investigations involving large-scale Kubernetes environments
• A high level of proficiency in Python and query languages such as SQL
• Experience analyzing attack behavior and prototyping high quality detections
• Experience with threat intelligence, malware analysis, infrastructure as code, detection engineering, or forensics
• Experience contributing to a high growth startup environment

Logistics

• Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
• Hybrid policy: Currently, staff are expected to be in one of the offices at least 25% of the time, though some roles may require more time in the office
• Deadline: Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis